A Thousand Pieces of Gold
eBook - ePub

A Thousand Pieces of Gold

A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Thousand Pieces of Gold

A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

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Information

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780007124510
eBook ISBN
9780007382101

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Note on Pronunciation
  6. Preface
  7. 1 - Loss of One Hair from Nine Oxen
  8. 2 - Precious Treasure Worth Cherishing
  9. 3 - One Written Word is Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold
  10. 4 - Binding your Feet to Prevent your own Progress
  11. 5 - Clapping with One Hand Produces No Sound
  12. 6 - When the Map is Unrolled, the Dagger is Revealed
  13. 7 - Burning Books and Burying Scholars
  14. 8 - Words that Would Cause a Nation to Perish
  15. 9 - Pointing to a Deer and Calling it a Horse
  16. 10 - Little Sparrows with Dreams of Swans
  17. 11 - Destroy the Cooking Cauldrons and Sink the Boats
  18. 12 - This Young Man is Worth Educating
  19. 13 - Banquet at Wild Goose Gate
  20. 14 - Dressed in the Finest Brocades to Parade in the Dark of Night
  21. 15 - Plot to Sow Discord and Create Enmity
  22. 16 - The Heart of the People Belongs to Han
  23. 17 - The Human Heart is Difficult to Fathom
  24. 18 - Devising Strategies in a Command Tent
  25. List of Proverbs
  26. Index
  27. Acknowledgements
  28. About the Author
  29. Also by Adeline Yen Mah
  30. Copyright
  31. About the Publisher